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I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.
Ava DuVernay
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Ava DuVernay
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: August 24
Film Director
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Television Producer
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Long Beach
California
Ava Marie DuVernay
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Working full-time as a filmmaker has been a dream come true.
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When I went out to shoot for the first time, I thought this was going to be about the prison industrial complex, purely about prison for profit and the ways in which there's an industry making money and profiting off punishment.
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I don't understand the iPhone. I just don't get it. Don't ya'll have to write serious emails throughout the day? How can you possibly manage detailed missives on a phone with no keys?
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I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton.
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Stop asking, start doing.
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Netflix represents, as well as all the streaming services, something that I've been talking about being so important to inclusive voices around films.
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It was easy for me to show the films to the studio and the network and say, This is who I'm hiring.
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I'm not the most athletic gal, but because making a movie is very physical, I slow down on the Krispy Kreme and Ice Blendeds. I start to get leaner and more focused - like I'm going into a boxing match - because I'm about to really try to put this idea on its feet.
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We [Americans] know Martin Luther King Jr. as a statue. We know him as a holiday. We know him as a speech. We don't know him as a man. Most people don't even know the whole speech, just I have a dream. They don't know what his speaking voice was like, how he looked at his wife, or that he had four kids.
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When you force sleep, it doesn't happen.
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Folks can look at this issue and read it and it can feel like medicine, it can feel epidemic. We wanted this to hit people in their gut, and the hope is that by doing that, we can get more people to think more deeply about these issues.
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True change is a long game, and it remains to be seen if this is change. We've had years before where there have been great years for filmmakers and performers of color, LGBTQ filmmakers and performers, women.
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Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.
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Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until you really start to look inside the system and you see, this is not right.
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[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.
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We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.
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I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.
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I know that there are a lot of great women that have gone before me, so it's important to acknowledge them.
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I tell the stories that are of interest to me.
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Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.
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